The date is becoming more widely known due to the efforts of Black historians who have been sharing the date's importance ...

The June 19 announcement came more than two-and-a-half years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 ... state-to-state to draw attention to the cause ...

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, it was announced that same ... been enslaved on that plantation got to hear it." To draw people to that spot, a bell was rung.

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, he called it “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the 19th century.” Yet critics ...

CHICAGO, Wednesday, Nov. 4. The original draft of the Emancipation, which was donated to the Northwestern Fair for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission, is now in the hands of the Commission who ...